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In reply to the discussion: loser fuckheads accusing obama of using soldier as a "prop" [View all]You can disagree with war and yet still support and show respect for our soldiers/veterans. You really think Obama was trying to get people to accept war by showing a soldier that is physically damaged and admitting that this soldier was deployed 10 times???? I'm sorry, I'm not getting your logic here. War is, and has been, a necessary/unavoidable evil in our world since the beginning of time. It's going to take a minute to stop it completely. It's kind of hard for our country to just say, "Yeah, we aren't going to participate in war anymore, ya know, cuz it's wrong." I don't know anyone who "likes" war, not even those that are "pro-war". But - it's like trying to stop a moving train - it's not going to just happen. We can't just say stop and withdraw ourselves from the world. What if they all just KEEP ON having war? We are supposed to do what? Just sit here in the middle of it and do what? We live on the same planet, their wars affect us - if they use nuclear weapons, whether we participate or not, we suffer. We have to defend ourselves, period. I agree that many of the wars have been ridiculous - but again, it's a HUGE dynamic and it can't just be changed overnight. Instant gratification is for children, not grownups with fully developed frontal lobes who can reason and think and see consequences.